1"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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Job 12:4, Job 12:4, Luke 23:35, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 35:15

2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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Job 24:5, Job 24:5, Hebrews 11:38, Job 24:13, Job 24:16

4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

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Luke 15:16, Luke 15:16, Amos 7:14, 2 Kings 4:38, 2 Kings 4:39

5They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

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Daniel 4:25, Daniel 4:25, Psalms 109:10, Genesis 4:12, Genesis 4:14

6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 22:1, 1 Samuel 22:2, Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 22:1

7Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.

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Job 6:5, Job 11:12, Genesis 16:12, Job 6:5, Job 11:12

8They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

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Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 1:22, Jeremiah 7:18, Proverbs 1:7

9"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

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Job 17:6, Lamentations 3:63, Job 17:6, Lamentations 3:63, Lamentations 3:14

10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.

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Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 26:67, Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 26:67, Psalms 88:8

11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

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Job 12:21, Job 12:18, Job 12:21, Job 12:18, James 1:26

12On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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Job 19:12, Job 19:12, Job 19:18, Psalms 140:4, Psalms 140:5

13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

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Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 69:26, Isaiah 3:12, Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 69:26

14As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

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Job 22:16, Psalms 18:4, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Psalms 69:14

15Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

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Hosea 13:3, Hosea 13:3, Job 6:4, Isaiah 44:22, Job 6:4

16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

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Psalms 22:14, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 22:14, Psalms 42:4, Isaiah 53:12

17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

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Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:6, Job 33:19, Job 33:21, Isaiah 38:13

18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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Job 2:7, Job 2:7, Job 7:5, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6

19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

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Job 42:6, Genesis 18:27, Job 9:31, Job 42:6, Genesis 18:27

20I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

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Job 19:7, Job 19:7, Job 27:9, Lamentations 3:8, Psalms 80:4

21You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

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Job 10:14, Job 10:17, Job 10:14, Job 10:17, Job 16:9

22You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

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Job 27:21, Job 27:21, Psalms 104:3, Job 9:17, Psalms 18:10

23For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

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Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Ecclesiastes 9:5

24"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

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Matthew 27:39, Matthew 27:44, Job 19:7, Psalms 35:25, Judges 5:31

25Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

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Romans 12:15, Romans 12:15, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Psalms 35:13

26When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

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Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 14:19, Job 3:25

27My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

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Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:11, Psalms 22:4, Lamentations 1:20, Jeremiah 31:20

28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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Psalms 43:2, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 38:6

29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

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Micah 1:8, Micah 1:8, Psalms 102:6, Psalms 102:6, Job 17:14

30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

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Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 4:8, Psalms 102:3, Psalms 102:3, Psalms 119:83

31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

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Lamentations 5:15, Lamentations 5:15, Isaiah 21:4, Isaiah 21:4, Daniel 6:18